The Southeastern Conference must think it invented football. Winning five straight Bowl Championship Series titles, and seven out of the 13 played, can give you a superiority complex.
Never mind how much fortune, along with will and skill, was involved.
Tennessee got to the first BCS title game — and won — only because Arkansas' quarterback fumbled without being touched.
Florida owned 2006 after beating out Michigan for the No. 2 spot by a BCS score of .9445 to .9344. The Gators won in 2008 despite losing at home to Mississippi.
LSU conquered the BCS in 2003 even though USC was No. 1 in both polls, and four years later, the Tigers became the only two-loss team to get in the title game only after West Virginia pulled an all-time choke job at home against Pittsburgh.
Alabama in 2009 needed Terrence Cody's giant meatloaf arms to block two kicks against Tennessee, while Auburn last season needed Cam Newton, the Miracles and the NCAA to reach the championship game, where it defeated Oregon in the last second.
And 10 other conferences that could have done something about it didn't.
"They have won the last five here for five years," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. "So it's our job as other conferences, or other schools, to win it. And then you can claim it."
Here's a short list of ordinary-conference schools with an outside chance of ending the SEC's five-year stranglehold: